Driven by curiosity. Driving changeAntiviral and antibacterial work
Dealing with pathogens
To deal with the emergence of new viruses and bacterial strains resistant to antibiotics, we need new molecular and nanomaterial-based strategies.
Our projects
Together with our collaborators at the University of Cambridge and the University of Birmingham, as well as various industrial partners, we are developing antiviral surface coatings and exploring the antiviral and antibacterial properties of plant-based pigments and our photoactivable hybrids. This work has been driven by recent funding initiatives by EPSRC and Innovate UK to enable faster translation of antiviral/antibacterial strategies from the lab to the end-user.
More on our collaboration with the Colorifix company, which has developed an environmentally friendly strategy for textile dyeing.
Within the Cultivator project run by the Centre for Global Equality and helped by a group of Cambridge students and researchers from Bahir Dar Institute of Technology in Ethiopia, we are developing a bionanotech-inspired disinfectant that can be activated by sunlight and used in low-income countries.